Hey guys i just recently got a 2001Dell demension 2400 desktop.Visit this link for full dell specs.... As you can see it only has 128Mb RAM*sigh* dell is alwayz tryin to cheat their consumers out ya know...anyways it has 3 PCI slots and NO AGP OR PCI-E. Now the lack of PCI-E i understand but no f'n AGP!!..anyways i need help...how, in any way can i make this omputer a moderate gaming machine...now im not talkin about some colosal LAN rig...just a step above decent. There is a high price cap to none at all so get creative (also can you replace dell cases with custom cases i.e. a Thermaltake i was lookin at or the new Antec P180 prototype). Is there ANYTHING i can do to save this Dell from total crappyness and lag lag lag?? PLEASE HELP a poor cheap guy make do with what he's got, thanks and live long and prosper!

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with a agp or pci-e port the only way you can upgrade the graphics card is to use a standard pci card, and i havent seen a better one than the nvidia fx5500. There is very little you can do with that machine unfortunatly. Rather than trying to revive it save your money and build something new.

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Well, Honestly... You can probably salvage the CPU. What is it a P4 2.8Ghz? Not too bad... Would give you something decent for gaming.
And you could use the HDD & any optical drives.

But, You'd need, "A new motherboard Socket 478 or 775", You'd need some ram... ideally 1GIG. Then You'd need a new case, because the new motherboard won't fit in the Dell case. And the dell motherboard won't fit in the new case either... Then you'd need a PSU, if the new case doesn't come with one. Oh and you'd have to pick up a OEM Copy of an operating system like XP home or Pro. Unless of course you were going with linux. You can't use the Dell OEM OS on another PC.

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